You can clone the disk. Cloning works at the physical level, so it never has to read the disk. xxClone may handle it. Or under linux use the dd command, that would be the simpletst way. Make sure OF anf IF are pointing to the correct disks however or you will have two blank disks...
Make EXACT duplication of hard drive unreadable by any OS
Hello all, I've been trying to figure this out for the longest time on my own, but I just cannot do it anymore without help. I have 2 dvr-type consoles, one of which is missing a hard drive. I have tried to copy the hard drive from the complete console but no operating system can read or open the drive. The operating systems I've tried are those on my computer, Mac os leopard, windows xp, and ubuntu linux. The consoles are very rare sony psx so finding support is impossible as these were only released in japan in a limited number. I know that the operating system for these consoles is stored on the hard drives because the same drive works in both consoles and show the same exact firmware versions. I need to copy the info on the good drive to a blank drive, including the way it's formatted, which again is unreadable by any computer, and all the files on the drive. How can I do this? It's very important that I figure this out. If you need any more info let me know, Thanks!
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will cloning also format the drive the way the original drive is formatted?
It is an exact duplicate, cloning works on the physical level it doesn't know or care what the filesystem/formatting is - it just duplicates everything on the drive, so yes, the file system, any partitioning etc will be exactly the same. If you clone a 120 GB drive to a 500GB drive, you will end up with a 120GB partition on the drive and the rest will be free space.
Thats perfect, I'll give xxclone a try. I tried with carbon cloner on mac os, but it only clones disks the operating system recognizes. xxclone sounds more promising. Thanks.It is an exact duplicate, cloning works on the physical level it doesn't know or care what the filesystem/formatting is - it just duplicates everything on the drive, so yes, the file system, any partitioning etc will be exactly the same. If you clone a 120 GB drive to a 500GB drive, you will end up with a 120GB partition on the drive and the rest will be free space.
XXclone gives me same result as ccc in mac osx. It doesn't recognize the drive as a formatted drive and does not give me the option to duplicate it. This is turning out to be a lot more difficult than It would initially seem.:sigh:
You may have to go to a hogher end product then. Media Tools Pro should handle it, in xxClone did you select to clone the physical drive, and are these recogniozed by the BIOS correctly? Some of these drives appear to have a custom firmware that the drive is locked to one of the VCRs, whether it is a signal line they use, or a component that must be present not sure. If the drive is found correctly in BIOS tho Media Tools should be able to do a physical clone. Do not try to copy the file system or logical partitions.
Hello thanks for helping me through this. Media Tools Pro is waaay too expensive for a one-time use. Could you please clarify how to clone the physical drive?
here's a desktop snapshot if it helps:
http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad5/aCyberghost/other/snapshot.png
and another that showsonly the windows drive in the drop down menu:
http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad5/aCyberghost/other/snapshot2.png
here's a desktop snapshot if it helps:
http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad5/aCyberghost/other/snapshot.png
and another that showsonly the windows drive in the drop down menu:
http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/ad5/aCyberghost/other/snapshot2.png
Interesting, I thought xxClone did physical drives, but it appears to only do the volume....
dd from a linux boot disk would do it, just make sure the if and of parameters point to the correct drives... some dd info here on cloning http://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning
dd from a linux boot disk would do it, just make sure the if and of parameters point to the correct drives... some dd info here on cloning http://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning
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